Cool Customer (For Kinda Cute by Patricia)

Hullo all, I hope you enjoyed/are enjoying the holidays.  I have my final make as part of the Kinda Cute by Patricia DT team......

I used Waiter Penguin.  So much fun, and think of all the occasions you could use it for.....birthday, Christmas, or just an everyday card like I did here.

I'd like to thank Patricia for letting me be a part of her DT.  Do go check out her shop, and buy yourself a New Year's present or two.  (:

Happy New Year to you all!  See you in 2018.

Also for:

Watercolour Wednesday:  anything masculine goes
Tuesday Throwdown:  anything goes

That's A Wrap @ Little Red Wagon

This week at

it's Sandy's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "That's A Wrap", such a clever challenge for our last of the year!  All she means by it is that she wants to see projects that have a gift (or gifts) on it....or maybe you've decorated up a gift bag or a present. We're not usually too sticky over at Little Red Wagon, so have fun with it!

Countdown to Christmas is well on, isn't it though? Five days left....how are you all doing with your preparations? Me....I'm not panicking quite yet. I've still got some cards to do, and some baking, but the gifts are all bought and wrapped so that's checked off my list.

Speaking of gifts.....I'm supposed to show you a project about them. Here it is......

I just love James the Bear. He's from Lili of the Valley (of course). He looks like he's going to make someone extremely happy with that pile of presents.

Speaking of bears....omg, have you seen that GIANT stuffed bear at Costco? A guy was buying two of them tonight. Two of them!! I was with my middlest and he couldn't see the point of them until I explained how great it would be, especially if you had a bad day, to come home, grab a blanket and snuggle up with your bear and have a nap. He thought about it for a second and said, "Yeah, that would be pretty good."  And seeing that he's 6'(just shy of)5" (at 14!) it's probably the only bear he'd ever be able to do that with.....unless, you know, he found himself an actual bear...and even then it would have to be either the grizzly or polar variety.  

Why not give our challenge a go this week and head on over to Little Red Wagon and link up?  And, while you're there, be sure to check out the wonderful projects the other Girlfriends have created.

Oh, and I should just mention that Little Red Wagon is taking next week off to enjoy the holidays.  We'll be back on January 3rd with our first challenge of 2018.  If I don't "see" you before, do have a very Happy Holiday, I hope it's filled with lots laughter and love.  (And food.  Gotta have the eats too.)

Also for:

Merry Monday:  tic tac toe - red, punch (snowflakes), buttons/brads
Crafty Calendar:  it's Christmas
QKR Stampede:  Christmas
Incy Wincy:  red & green
Always Fun:  a Christmas carol
Deep Ocean:  jingle bells
The Holly & the Ivy:  anything Christmas goes
{PIN}spirational:  inspirational photo
Come And Get It:  Christmas
Christmas At Sweet Stampin':  anything Christmas goes
The Male Room:  Christmas
The Sisterhood of Crafters:  all about Christmas
Merry Christmas Challenge:  anything goes + Christmas
Cupcake Inspirations:  inspirational photo

Christmas Critters @ Little Red Wagon

This week at

it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she wants to see those holiday animals. Perfect challenge for this time of year, right?

This is what I did....

I made a pop up gift card holder.  Thought this digi from DigiStamp Boutique would be perfect for teacher gifts.  Hmmmmm.....I must say, I could have blended out my colouring better.  I guess when you're looking at it after midnight, for a challenge that's due in about seven hours, the colouring job will look spot on.

I was just happy the constructing, folding, etc. of the holder went (basically) according to plan.  I'm usually terrible at figuring out these types of projects.  I did have one minor glitch.....I had originally used a different sweet little border die to make the detailed edge.....but I ended up getting a stand alone sweet little border rather than a sweet little edge.  I blamed it on the die, rather than the user, of course.  Usually I'm good about putting my dies back in their package so I don't worry about losing them (though I'm not so good about putting the package back) but I was pretty mad at this one so I taped it to the desk with washi tape so it could think about what it had done.  I was just all kinds of relieved that the flap was long enough and I didn't have to make a whole new one.

I didn't bother with a photo of the inside as I'm sure most of you know what a pop up gift card holder looks like (and if you don't you can see the one from the tutorial I used)......and because this piece of patterned paper was just the right length with the manufacturers information still attached.  I'm doubting my daughter's teacher will notice, much less care, but I know if a fellow crafter saw it, it would look like a lump on plate glass.  So, remain closed, it shall.

Why not give our challenge a go this week and head on over to Little Red Wagon and link up?  And, while you're there, be sure to check out the wonderful projects the other Girlfriends have created.

Also for:

Crafty Sentiments:  snowflakes
The Cutie Pie Challenge:  snowflakes
Use Your Stuff:  Christmas is coming
Allsorts:  snowflakes
Aud Sentiments:  Christmas + sentiment
The Male Room:  Christmas

Holiday Gift Tags/Holders @ Little Red Wagon

This week at

it's Sandy's turn to host the challenge and she's all about holiday tags and holders....which, I'll admit, made me grumble a bit. I'm still very much in my almost eight year streak of not being able to make tags. So, for this, I decided to do something super simple....

and I made a box set of mini 2" x 2" tags.

Here's what some of them look like....

I used up A LOT of scraps for this. I designed the sentiment in Silhouette, cut out the circles and the rest is pretty self-explanatory.  Turns out if I make the dimensions of a tag so small like this, there's not too many ways I can mess it up.

Why not give our challenge a go this week and head on over to Little Red Wagon and link up?  And, while you're there, be sure to check out the wonderful projects the other Girlfriends have created.

Be Merry @ Tiddly Inks

This month at

we're celebrating the upcoming holiday season be saying "Be Merry". All you need to be is follow the theme and use a Tiddly Inks image.

This is what I did....

I wanted to show that you can do a lot of the stamped image techniques with digis too.  What I did here was print three of the Poinsettia images on watercolour paper.  Then I took a wet paint brush and went over the printed lines.  Now, I have to admit, I was going for a black and white card originally....I didn't know black printer ink would bleed out red!  I was in luck coz I used a poinsettia digi....might not have looked too good if it was a snowman.  (:  So, I played around with the water and brush until I liked how it looked, then I just add some splatter, stamped and embossed the sentiment (with a pretty copper colour that did not photograph well), die cut the panel, and that was about it.  Bonus part about digis is that I could make the poinsettias exactly the size I wanted them.  Also, it's easy to move them, rotate them, flip 'em and see how it's going to look before printing.  I just do it with my Silhouette Studio software....start with a square that's the size of the card I want to make and it's just a matter clicking and moving until I get it how I want it.  And, with digis, you've got the option of that all-important undo button.  Surprised mine isn't worn out by now.  ;)

Why not grab a Tiddly Inks image, and join us for the challenge?  And be sure to  check out the fabulousness the DT has come up with.

Also for:

Make My Monday:  Happy Christmas
The Crazy Challenge:  Christmas is coming
Jingle Belles:  baby, it's gold (or silver or copper) outside
Aud Sentiments:  Christmas + sentiment
The Merry Christmas Challenge:  anything Christmas goes
Crafty Calendar:  it's Christmas
Christmas Card Throwdown:  2012/13 past challenge - January 2012 - Christmas flowers